HIMSS24 vendor news overview: from AI to imaging to RTLS
The HIMSS24 Exhibition Hall was filled this week with vendors from across the healthcare information technology spectrum. Many have made announcements about new systems, upgrades and partnerships to enhance their technology offerings.
Below is a selection of these announcements from a diverse group of healthcare IT vendors.
Konica Minolta Healthcare America
Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas has announced a new integration of the Exa Platform with AWS HealthImaging. The Exa Platform is an enterprise imaging, PACS, RIS and billing system that provides features such as server-side rendering, a diagnostic zero footprint viewer and a single, integrated database for all modules.
By using AWS HealthImaging services, Konica Minolta can focus on providing production workflow software for imaging customers, with AWS managing the infrastructure. Customers can benefit from the extensive depth of a comprehensive system, Konica Minolta said.
Konica Minolta will offer integration with AWS HealthImaging through the Exa Platform, leveraging application program interfaces and introducing the use of platform-as-a-service offerings from AWS. The Exa Platform will use AWS HealthImaging to store and retrieve DICOM instances, giving customers the benefits of significant storage savings and faster retrieval speeds, the company said.
Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas will be at HIMSS24 in the AWS booth 1561.
CenTrak
CenTrak, a provider of real-time location technologies, has launched a scalable Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Multi-Mode Platform.
Designed to meet the diverse needs of healthcare organizations, this new real-time location system (RTLS) offers location data capabilities and a cost-effective deployment model. Following the recent release of ConnectRT, CenTrak’s unified cloud-based software platform, the company continues to expand its offerings to address ongoing healthcare challenges, CenTrak said.
CenTrak’s BLE Multi-Mode Platform provides hybrid architecture that transitions between BLE and all CenTrak clinical localization environments. This interoperability allows customers to deploy mixed RTLS infrastructure within a single building or across an entire hospital campus to balance affordability and precision based on department needs, the company said.
By leveraging existing BLE-enabled hospital networks and infrastructure, this integration technology can potentially accelerate the adoption of location-based services with tag-and-badge-only deployments for use cases such as staffing, asset tracking, and others.
CenTrak will be in booth 4443 at HIMSS24.
DT research
DT Research, a provider of purpose-built computing systems for vertical markets, introduced the 323MD medical tablet, designed to deliver efficient point-of-care applications across a broad spectrum of healthcare environments.
The 323MD is a versatile device designed for both mobile and fixed settings, making it suitable for a wide range of healthcare applications, allowing healthcare professionals to monitor, capture and manage patient data.
“Our goal is to advance point-of-care technology within hospitals, clinics and healthcare facilities, while expanding our mobile solutions beyond conventional healthcare environments, expanding the reach of places where patient care can be delivered,” said Daw Tsai, president of DT Research.
“We believe purpose-built medical computing solutions not only streamline operations but also elevate the standard of patient care, creating more accessible and patient-centric healthcare experiences,” he added.
DT Research will be in booth 3527 at HIMSS24.
Innovaccer
Innovaccer has unveiled its new AI Partner, a device that expands the functionality of its healthcare AI ecosystem.
With this addition and the rollout of the analytics suite upgrade, Innovaccer aims to help providers achieve success with value-based care while increasing their ability to rediscover the joy of patient care.
The Provider AI Companion is a portable AI software and tablet device designed to support physicians and healthcare providers with real-time data visualization, access to critical patient information, and AI-generated diagnosis suggestions based on symptoms and medical history. It includes a dictation microphone with ambient sound recording.
The AI companion automatically transcribes exam room and virtual visits with the ability to understand and transcribe medical terminology, and learns from conversation context to display relevant patient cards for easy viewing.
“The provider AI companion will have a tremendous impact by freeing healthcare providers to focus more on their patients and help reduce burnout,” said Abhinav Shashank, co-founder and CEO of Innovaccer. “Additionally, our enhanced analytics solution suite offers a prescriptive approach, making recommendations based on historical data and predictive analytics models.”
Innovaccer will be at booth 3001 at HIMSS24.
MDClone
MDClone, an analytical and synthetic data provider, has partnered with the University of Chicago and UChicago Medicine to create an ADAMS Center, a unified data-driven epicenter for innovation, research and quality improvement projects for Chicago’s healthcare system.
ADAMS represents the innovation process of Ask, Discover, Act, Measure and then Share, aimed at generating faster insights at scale by driving synergy between teams. When the ADAMS Center is fully established at Chicago Medicine in fall 2024, employees across the UChicago Medicine healthcare system will benefit from the learnings and knowledge of other ADAMS Centers in MDClone’s global network to:
- Transform the healthcare system into a continuous learning environment aligned with leadership goals and objectives.
- Empower research and clinical teams to be champions of change through faster and easier access to information.
- Securely use synthetic data to collaborate with external partners.
The ADAMS Center will enable the UChicago Medicine health system to accelerate research, evaluate and improve care delivery, and seek new innovative partnerships by making data available more quickly with self-service tools and more securely by providing synthetic data when appropriate for physicians, interns and physicians. administrators, MDClone said.
MDClone will be in booth 451 at HIMSS24.
MedeAnalytics
MedeAnalytics, a software-as-a-service healthcare analytics company that powers clinical, financial and operational analytics for healthcare providers, payers, employers and other stakeholders, has introduced its newest system, Value-Based Care Administration.
Developed in collaboration with HSBlox as part of an exclusive partnership, this offering supports healthcare organizations from a contract management perspective wherever they are in their value-based care journey, providing management of many-to-many hierarchies between entities in a network (network of networks) while harmonizing and implementing all payment models (including value-based and paid payment models) with the ability to scale across the healthcare ecosystem, the company said.
By leveraging the power of the MedeAnalytics data structure to collect, aggregate and analyze healthcare data with the HSBlox platform for value-based healthcare contract management and administration, this new, integrated system provides organizations with flexibility and interoperability to drive digital transformation. accelerate and participate in a single platform, even extending to payment modeling and facilitation, the company added.
“Achieving success in value-based care requires understanding where you are today, where you want to go – and when you got there,” said Rahul Sharma, CEO of HSBlox. “The flexibility to support all value-based care models in one place, with the integration of the many-to-many hierarchical relationships required by these programs, is a game changer for the advancement of value-based care.”
MedeAnalytics will be at booth 6663 at HIMSS24.
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